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EVENING EDITIOU 1 .ret EVENING EDITIOU WEATHER REPORT Calling cards, wed ding stationery, com mercial stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oregonian. Ilnln or snow iinil Friday. tonight COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 22. CITY OFFICIAL PiPFli PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DIX'EM liEli J), 19()'j. angtrwirnwwriwwi..... , & I 0 SSSSMOCJ (- -r j NO. 67 BBGEMS nmn inimn binu Lullu tor from Rhode Island. They are go ing to mane a big effort to those dents and make a few deepen more. Progressive Members of Re- pt'blican Party Prepared for Series of Battles. LAY ON MACDUFF" CRIES "UNCLE JOE' f.rrort of Rebellious Congressmen Will lie Directed Against Cannon ami AMrit-lt Will Eight Organiza Hon In Botli Hoiimcn Speaker Can non lias lialiuiiv of Power In His Control of ClniiuJtKMw Mdrlch Icds in Senate. Washington. Dec. 9. Encouraged oy me sentiment they found at their respective homes this summer and the general Western discontent with the Paync-Aldrlch tariff law, the so-calloa insurgents or progressive members of the republican party, are hwe In force prepared to fight the organization in both houses to a standstill in this ses sion of congress. But an examination f the state of affairs at the capltol shows that they have a hard task mapped out for them. Their fight will constat largely in making things as unpleasant ns possible for Cannon and Aldrich. "And we can worry them consider ably." Congressman Murdock. the red haired Insurgent leader from Kansas, says with n smile. To which Uncle Joe smiles grimly and remarks that he is used to un pleasant things by this time. And then he pound bis desk with sleeves J rt.neii up ami s.iys, -lA'l them como on. I'm Just spoiling for a fight." Split on several Issues. The fight against the organization In the special session last summei was necessarily confined to the tariff bill, but this winter the republicans will split on several issues. The postal savings bank, the tariff commission Idea, reform In Interstate commerce li gelation, and several other things that were promised by the platform of both parties, will lie storm centers, after the regular appropriation bills nre disposed of and perhaps In be tween times. The big problem for the progressives in the house Is how to get a vote on any of these or kindred Issues. The rules under which t'ie lower boiiso of congress does business were fronted so that recognition of a member Is left to the speaker and if the organiza tion nf the house wants to discourage amendments to measures the congress, man who Is anxiously clamoring to present one Il!ds thai be can't catch the speaker's eye, I'ower of Colitiiilitcc. I hen. l lo. th" house consldcrv only those measures that are reported by committees. All the business of the house Is framed up In cnjnmlttee. Their meetings are secret, and if the majority desires to kill a bill, It Is sim ply left n n convenient pigeon-hole in die a natural cWth. And nil the king's horses -eannot force n report either favorable or unfavorable so as to give the house a chance to vote on It. This method Is the favorite way of killing legislation against which even a ma jority of the members would not dare to record their votes. And Uncle Joe holds every committee in the palm Of his hand. What will probably happen is that the insurgents, aided and abetted by the democrats, will use every parlia mentary device known to legislation to pry loose some pari of the ma i hlne. mi itit.w will nr. re-elected president llaltlmore. Dee. 9 According to reports current today, Pros dent Oscar U. Murray of the Baltimore & Ohio, will bu re-elected at the meeting of the board. It was recently rumored that Murray would announce his re tirement at today's board meeting, but he hag declared nosltivolv that h.. will be re-elected. ' It Is certain thai- ne nas no opposition on the board uiiu inui wnen ne retires his action will be voluntary. Further than stating that he would do re-elected. President Murray has not committed himself. From sources it Is learned that, yielding to impor tunities, Mr. Murray probably will consent to a re-election, but whether he will serve out his term is another question. It is considered more like ly that some time before the expira tion of the term for which he prob ably will be chosen, he will relin quish the presidency. In order to re tain him In a . responsible position there is talk of creating the place of chairman of the board, Installing Mr. Murray In the office. Several well known railroad men have been mentioned In connection with the presidency if Mr. Murray re signs. J. R Loree, whom Mr. Mur ray succeeded, and who is now presi dent of the Delaware A Hudson rail road, s among them, also George I... Potter, vice president and general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio. mm. mmm COAST II N. V. ROADS STORM ABATES JUNR IN CREATE POLITICAL ISSUES penxsyi. vania eerehatio.x KNTKKS TI1K ARENA Members of Switchmen's Union Allege Railroads Force Strikebreakers. I1IG STRIKE COLLAPSES OX MONTANA ROARS Minnesota Ijilmr .Commissioner .ln veMlgntos niargo That StrlJie lircakers Are Prevented front Join ing Strikers by Amid Guards Switchmen Return t0 Work at Liv ingston, .Montana, Indicating Grad ual Co 1 1 a p,. f Hie, Strike. Minneapolis. Dec. 9. State Labor Commissioner McEwen is today In vestigating tne sweeping charges of peonage filed against the northwest roads by E. D. Carr of Toledo, an of ficial of the switchmen's union, and J. B. Wilson, of Duluth, a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men, carr and Wilson allege that the roads are keeping imported strike breakers who took the places of switchmen who are striking nuder an armed guard to prevent their Liinlnir the strikers. , Teriffic Gale Which Raged Along Pacific Line Has Spent Its Force. whipped ska into .MOUNTAINOUS WAVES real Storm AsmiiimmI Hurricane Pro. portions WIihI Mew at 50 Miles ail Honr in San Eihih-Im-o Along Ore gon Coast ! Ic-ached Velocity of 70 MilfeStreet Car Traffic and Tele graphic Communication Romoral l.od. annual meeting of th.- dairymen of Oregon and Washington. Dairy ma tiuiieiy )8 snown in operation and is run by cheese power. Exhibitors found difficulty in securing chains sufficiently large and strong to con fine some of the more violent spe mens. A panic was almost caused In the exhib'tion hail when one particu larly husky cheese, said to have been sent by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany from his own private menagerie, cs caped from its bonds and ran amuck through the building, shouting "Uoeh der Kaiser!" It was captured flfte an rxuiimg cnase, ana a lion cag " secureu irom ine local zoo. in which It was confined. The foreign cheeses are shown to the dairymen as horrible examples of what to avoid TV. 1 . . i e American cneeses are larlvl lr :n demeanor and show none of the vio lent cnaraeterlstics of the imported article. MEET TO DISCUSS CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Will Seek to 'Abolish Stale Constab ulary To Eight Court Injunctions Will Draw Up legislation Ijilxir Platform. llarrisourg, Dec. 9. To take action "for the perpetuation of political ami Industrial freedom" is tile an nounced purpose of an extrarir.linai y convention of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, ouoiied in Grand Army Hail today. The union labor men of the state expect to ac complish their purpose by taking an politics, especially n I lection throughout th. Strikers Iteturn to Work. Butte. Dec. 9 The collans.. f th.. switchmen's strike In Montana on the Northern Pacific road Is indicated by ihe return to work today at D ving ston of switchmen ordered out by I'rcs d- nt Hawley of the Switchmen's I'nlon. " Th.- decision to return to work fid, 'o red a conference yesterday wit It the division superintendent, indicating a mpM n-st .ration of traff.c to normal condition. Strikers are also return ing to work at Ijinrel. another ter-iti-tia'. San Francisco, Dec. 9. After ragln, for fourteen hours the fierce gale that nwepi cne coast from San Diego to British Columbia showed signs of abating early today. According to the local weather officials the storm spent Its force at early dawn. In this city the wind blew at the rate of 50 miles an hour last night, while off Heads It reached a velocity of sixty miles. Reports from the Oregon coast stated that the storm assumed almost urncuiie proportions there and that a "0 mile gale was whipping the sea Into a succession of mountaineous waves. The storm delayed the street car traffic here and several lines were prostrated. Telegraphic communica tion throughout California was demoralized. XT..... V 1. n . .. -irn turn, uec. . ine civil ser- v.ce reformers met in Xew York to oay to take up their annual task. The Bession is the twenty-ninth In the his tory of the National Civil Service Re form League, and was opened with a meeting of the council at the Uni versity club. A public session will be held at the City club, and the third session at Mendelssohn hail. .The convention will be continued tomor row. President Charles W. Eliot will deliver his annual address this eve r ng. CUNNINGHAM MEN WERE AFTER TIMBER i iti K.in i.it in nxs and PART OF CREW PERISHES Two seamen missing follow- Anchor line j Point Peice, I i Six member. in Aldrich In lite Senate, in the senate, it Is a little different. With but ninety members, the upp. house proceeds on rules that allow any member to talk ns long as he wants about anything or nothing, and to of fer amendments to anybill that may bi up. Senator Aldrich thinks that be can hold his forces in line ns well a: lie did when the tariff bill was up. The Insurgents, led by Cummins and Follette say that the tariff was a I arty measure, and they point with pride to the dents that the tariff dis cussion left In the armor of the senn- tive part the lego ..it: state. 'lie of tile issues, declared a labor leader today, will be the abolition of the state constabulary, which is held a menace to un.nn labor inasmuch as th... principal duties of the officers i.s to patrol districts in which strikes are in progress. It is assorted by the union lenders that, while th.- nsti n s.ble purpose of U:e cvnstaVu: "r; to "preserve- the pence." the eon- a'" '. y !. found fight ing "ii the side of the wealthy mining and manufacturing companies and aumist tli,. strikers. It is proposed to force all candidates for legislative honor to pledge themselves to vote for the abolition of the constabulary. Another matter under consideration is a plan for anion ling lews now in force, which pcrm.ts court ,o.moc tlons and prohibiting labor day cele brations in boroughs. The latter complaint has grown from ttie oi.brs of the burgess of Vandergvirt. Pa., wh i refused labor I. iiV rs from out of town last Sep tember the right to hold a labor day parade becaue, as he said. It might endanger the peace of the community where there were no unions The convention will draw up a, leg Is'ative labor platform which the State Federation will carry in'o every legislative district both nt the June primaries and nt the next November elect on. when members ofjthe 1911 legislature are chosen Among oth er subjects that the labor federation at this early stage Is preparing to inject In the leg slative fight are child 'ahor measures, factory inspection laws and employers' liability bills. It is also possible that the sentence of I'ompers. Mitchell and Morrison will be : subject for bitter d scussion by i the convention, as the call denounces "cmoniim nl by injunction an.t jnngc ninde law." State C-are for Insane. Bait more. Dee. 9. To arouse sen timent in favor of state care lor th. icsane in Maryland Is the purpose of a joint session today of the Psychiat ric s.-H'i.tv. the .Vourological soe'ey and the State Lunacy commission. .Mayo.- Muhool and many legislat es hav.- interested themselv. s in the project, which contemplates the ere.-, tton of three stite hospitals for whites an I .mo asylum for colored people. Prmiip.nt physicians declare that Maryland is far b"hinj till oil,, -j states .ii caring for the Insane an T mentally afflicted. Baltimore has a city hospital f.r the Insane,' but. ow ng to lack of funds, the patients can- givcli ;;dcT.:a:c l'.t 11 tton niol Cleveland. Dec. 9 are dead and 12 are ng t lie burning of th freighter Clarion, off iit:irlo. at midnight of the crew, who w. re taken fr..m the burning ship bv th- steame:- Manna, brought the i at daylight. i re ( iai i .ii u a;: a u ( n 2 If feet long with :'G foot 1). ". i-'t'irt. .1 - miii af.er th,. passed Amhersthurg. Ontario. "es oiov ne ,nim. ns.. wave swept the decks .f the doomed ves s" wiu k thai i: i any ilistan e ! the Point V TESTIMONY IX 1XQIIRV PROVES PIXCHOT'S CHAROES Etitrymen Piled on Claims n Eorest Reserve ami Cunningham Consid ered TIiiiImt Tlierto" a Big Asset IJttter Was IUir Promoter. CLAIMS COOK'S DATA IS FAKED New York Insurance Broker Says Doctor Paid Him and Another for Job. ALLEfiKs COOK FAILED TO KEEP AGREEMENT news to Cleveland st earner am. The Clarion A eaie sol. mill Iifesavers did not see nals displayed by til. The snow was Impossible to se on this account the distri Clarion. I lull b. comforts HIKE RACERS PALL EXIIACSIED OX TRACK New York. Dec. 9. Patrick Kci ran, the (cum mate of Frank lalvinif. of this city, in the six day bicycle race nt Madison Square Oarden collapsed today and was removed from the track by order of physicians. This Is the flrsf team' to be retired thus far. This morning the leadi i s were still 11 miles and eight lap ahead of the record of last year, having covered 1575 miles. Later In the day, Rutt Stole wns forced to retire as his legs were giving out. V tJE W IS AtiAIXST TEXni.RI.OIN BALI. Chicago. Dec. 9. I'nited Slates Dis trict Attorney Sims today took a hand in the fight helm; waged against the f minus first ward hall, an annual tinderloin event conducted by Alder j man "llinkcy Dink" McKciina. nn.l I "l.'nthhoiise John" Cottghlin, The ! i:.iice is scheduled to be held Monday plight and Sims announced be will j have agents on hand to watch for evi dence auainst the "While Slave trud iirs." A large number of postal cards advertising the ball, were suppressed I by postal authorities today. Soiith's Rig Crop. W.islrnirten. Dec. 9. According to 'itiircs jtc-t compiled the value of the smith's agricultural products for 19(19 's '.i the ne;ghborhe,i i of t- tnn.Oiin.-'-a: of a totn: of S S.; on .oof.oon "' farms of the entire country. of the south's total between $900, HitO.OO and Jl.Outl.' ii 1.000 i presents the crop of cotton, with its seed, now ming upon the mat-kit. an increase of between JlfiO.OilO.fiO and $20(1,- ..,....,.., over inns, tnougn the num ber of bales this year will probably be more than 2 000.000 less than last year's crop. In the value of crops ottou ranks second to corn. with vheat and hay following. 1 CK II I NTERS LOSE I.IVES ix Oakland. Die. 9. Search was in stituted today for the bodies of two of the three duck hunters who .lost their lives off Poin' Richmond last night. The body of Deputy Sher ff J..I. Burows of Contra. Costa county, has been recovered. The other two, Richard C. Casabonne and an un known companion are still under wa ter. A squall capsized their boat. i i: M EX IX DROWX WRECK (OLD WAVE CLAIMS VICTIMS IX COLORADO I 'envor. ; 'oio., Dei lead and two other result of the cold v. Colorado. The sta llaii'ia and Lc "llh passenger 9.--Two --non are are dying as the ke sweeping over driver between Wyoming, aiul hi re found dead near the Latter place. Roth bodies were frozen stiff. Early today two men. unconscious from the cold were found on the serects and mort probably will die. Pufl'alo, X. Y, Dec. 9. -The stet-mcr W. C. Rich-irdson went on the rocks three miles out this morning and five in. n ere reported drowned. Rescuers have brought fourteen men to this city. S.-ii-:uel Mayberry foil members of th crew were drovenee were not discovered Spokane. Wash., Dec. 9 Legal I agents of the forestry service learned today in th.. injuiry of the Cunning ham coal cases that the cntrymen had designed on the forest lands -and had actually taken possession of four claims in the forest reserve, besides I grabbing valuable water rights. Glf- ford Pinchot, ciiief forester. had charged this against the Cunningham cia.mants over a year ago. when the I coal cla:ms came up for Datentinn in Washington, but the assertion was Mien.e.l- by the general land offices. . j with the claim that there was no tim icr" j ber on the lands. The evidence ef I Henry White of Wallace, Idaho, I heard today, shows that Cln renee Cunningham figured the t.mber hol.t- Ol"ALL hips of the syndicate as a valuable asset. The, progress of the inquiry goes to strengthen the contention that the Cunningham coal entrymen felt they wen sale with the general land of-fice.-, and that patents would be 1s I sued iv g n-dless of any action they ! might take. The testimony shows Cunningham to have been a promoter on a large .scale and besides timber lands had secured possession of the only available route for a railroad. an ocean Harbor, a townsite and a Ol STEAMER I waterpower site each nroonsitum be ing separate but with the same stock holders and composed of the original coal entrymen. fieoige II. Dunkle Insists EnvloM .Rirl Him and Captain A. W. Loom to Pr-uire Polar Duta Turns on Employer Vmii Refusal to Par Danish Scientists Say They Can Dis cover If Observations are Fraoda lent. New York. Dec. 9 .:.-,. it Dunkle, an Insurance broker, today reiterated his charges that h nS Captain A. W. Loose had prepared the data for Dr. Frederick A. Cook with which the explorer hoDerf tn prove his claim that he had discover ed the north nolo nnnti. , . . ' -""'t oaiu ne turned on Cook because the Dhvsi- cian had failed to pay him a balance of $3,4 80 due from the alleged price of $5,000 for the faked observations. He said he gave the story to the pa per which published it thl m,i . Scientists Can Tell. Copenhagen, Dec. 9. If Dr. FvST. erlck A. Cook's data in mnnnn nrut. claim that he discovered the north pole was "faked" by Captain A. W. Loose, a retired engineer, and George H. Dunkle, a Xew York insurance agent, Danish scientists will discover the fraud. This is the only statement obtainable at the university today re garding the cable from New York to the effect that two men hired by Cook had faked the data. Authorities here discredit the statement about Loose and Dunkle. CHIL S'TI'DEXT HAS RODY PAINTED RED Fairmont, w. Va.. Dec. 9. Follow ing the h.-iKing ef Mis Hattie Taylor of Klkiits. W. Va.. a .srudenr in v state norma! school of this city, the hoard of reg. nts today instituted a rigorous investigation to U-arn the identity of the frolicers who are al leged to have given the young woman a bath in Ice water and to have streaked her body with brilliant red paint. The trouble between Miss Taylor and her tormenters followed the football game between the normal end n team from Elkins. during which the girl cheered for the lads from h-r home town. KALAMAZOO ALMOST DESTROYED RY EIRE Cleveland ami engine room Their bodies ."7 VARIETIES Ol' CHEESE. Dairymen of Oregon nuil Walin:rton Exhibit Products. Portland, Ore.. Dec. 9. Fifty-seven vt:. ties . f cheev. from all parts of the world, and of all brands, pedi-i-'i'i es. ages, sires, shape and degrees "f strength, rmg'ng from the tame and domesticated Oregon cream . h. . ., (,, the rampant and war-l.ke A OMA R Tacotna Robert .1. a ml wealthy found today RANK OP EXCLAXD REIH'CES RATE OF SUM M I'M DISCOUNT London, Dec. 8. The Rank of England todny reduced Its minimum discount rate from five to four and one half per cent. M i-, nn-e-er from C.ermany, are on ex- Ibibllion tOllnV Tile oee-li,,., i " 'cAPTUX OF ARCO fll I nTAnn mill n n n n n r i n ! loses his H II I I ft III II I I 11 IIIMRIII If I Airaiiina will rnUflfM l T'M.-1 moo'n In, r In IftPtf n no rip wmi RfliiiTiin8iisii ..,;.".: lum nunriG nil in iviul I iwuiviHn Though Manager Steiwcr has as yet received n,, definite answer to his ehillenge issued to the Multnomah club eleven for a game of football, it Is apparent that the matter Js be ing given consideration by the Port land management. Indeed, accord- j Ing to the Portland Journal the game j will probably be scheduled between ' the cr ick club team of the Oregon ' metropolis and the Pendleton "All- ! Star" aggregation. Nothing would please the local players better than ' to try conclusions with the Multno mah eleven and If the game should be ployed In Portland more than one! enthusiastic local to tin m.-tropol s 'I he follow ing ja Mtiluioiitnli Whether or not fans chili New will fan would journey to see tile contest. from -the Journal: 1'iiihTiilttl. Portland football KSIDEXT W AS ERO.EX TO DEATH Wn Dec. 9. The body of Heale. an acred earpenti r resident of Tacoma was near the residence of Aslniry Smith, where it had lain for more than n week. Investigation to day showed that Heale who called on Smith on the evening of Dec. 1. must heve falhn in the yard overcome by cold. The snow which fell that night to the depth of several inches, nac completely covered his body. The si ow has lain so thick on the ground during the subsequent freezing weath er, that not until today did it thaw sufficiently for the body to be seen. I.ICEN'SE 9.--- Cc rclessncss and i-mptiTig to cross the ebb tide on Novem- reason given by local suspending the license ol Captain Levi Snyder, master nf the w ivi ked steamer Argo, for twelve months. The decision was made pub lic tod-iy. and for the next year Cap tain Snyder w ill not bo allowed to take ccimaand ol another simmer. Kalamazoo. Mich . Dec. 9. Damage aggregating $500,000 wns done by fire starting at midnight and which for a time, threatened the destruction of the entire city's- business district. Twenty stores were destroyed with the Rurdick house and twenty other business houses were demoralized. The reports of loss of lives are unconfirmed. RED TAPE" RLOCKS RELIEF WORK AMONG SUFFERERS Chicago. Dec. 9. Mayor Tisse to day began an official Investigation In to chargis made by officials of the United Mine Workers to the effect that the r lief work amur; the widows and orphans of the Cherry mine dis aster is being delayed by too much adherence to "red tape" and that manv survivors are suffrring front a lai of nourishing food. RELIEVE KIDNAPPERS ADDICTED MISSING GIRL Louisvilie. Ky Dec. 9. The police ere making every effort today to f nd A'm:; Kelht r. daughter of J. F. Kell noi. th, wealthy brewer, who it is he. revel. Is being h. id by kidnappers for a runs, in She disappeared yester day morning .w hile en route to mass at tlu St. John's church. prop. the holl- see a cluh-eolli'ce. a club. or a bieii .eli.n.1 football game Year's day is still ail indefinite matter. There are now thr osita ns to be considered for day attraction. F rst In the list is the game pro pose,) between the Englewood high school team of Chicago and the (Continued on page S.) To Honor Justice Pccklinni. Albany. X. Y.. Dec. 9. A mentor a; meet ng to commemorate the life and services of the late Justice Rufus Peckham. of the United States Su preme court, will bo held this, eve ning In the assembly chamber, under the auspices of the New York State Rnr association. Addresses will be made by several speakers of prominence. Earl Dudley of Athena. Is In the EICKERT WILL TAKE UP CAI.HOl C.E San Francisco. Doc. 9.- The tri ll of Patrick II. Calhoun, th. millionaire magnate, was today continued until January pi win n it will be resumed by the in coming district attorney. Charles M. Fickert. Fiekert will hay, n clean sweep case. During his recent political campaign. Fran cis J. Honey, the famous graft prosecutor, charged that Fick ert was the personal candidate Since his election, declared his firm prosecute the graft of Calhoun. Fickert has Intention to cases. city today.